The story behind Kirk Cameron’s sad birthday photo
By Dylan Stableford | The Cutline
Kirk Cameron, star of the popular '80s sitcom "Growing Pains," celebrated his 41st birthday earlier this week. Cameron, who is now pursuing a new television career as a Christian evangelist and co-host of an evangelical show called "The Way of the Master," spent his birthday at Living Waters Ministry in Bellflower, Calif. The ministry's staff threw him a small party, and ordered from Subway. Lane Chaplin, a student at nearby Trinity Law School and a guest at the party, snapped a photo of Cameron blowing out the candles on a cake in Living Waters' rather sparse conference room. Chaplin uploaded the photo to Twitter. It quickly went viral.
"See a Very Sad Photo From Kirk Cameron's Birthday Party" the headline on New York magazine's Vulture blared. "We're not totally sure where this photo came from (and whether it's real, or from a movie set), but regardless of its origins: oh dear." The Washington Post's Jen Chaney launched a caption contest. Uproxx.com photoshopped Cameron some friends.
According to a person at the party who spoke to The Cutline, there were 10-15 people behind the camera when the photo of Cameron was taken. And none of them, it seems, was aware the photo went viral.
"Yup," Chaplin, a Christian vlogger, wrote in response to a Twitter message asking if the photo was real. "Are people posting it on the web?"
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Ok so the story doesn't really matter to me. I just saw this picture and the headline and thought, "oh yeah, that looks like my birthday party from a few weeks ago." Except for the fact that I didn't have 10-15 people behind my camera. And I wasn't smart enough to just order a couple short subs from Subway and not bother to put up a lot of decorations.
I mean if you can't laugh at yourself who can you laugh at? And to be honest, as soon as I had the thought that this reminded me of my party, I did laugh out loud and figured I just had to repost it.
"See a Very Sad Photo From Kirk Cameron's Birthday Party" the headline on New York magazine's Vulture blared. "We're not totally sure where this photo came from (and whether it's real, or from a movie set), but regardless of its origins: oh dear." The Washington Post's Jen Chaney launched a caption contest. Uproxx.com photoshopped Cameron some friends.
According to a person at the party who spoke to The Cutline, there were 10-15 people behind the camera when the photo of Cameron was taken. And none of them, it seems, was aware the photo went viral.
"Yup," Chaplin, a Christian vlogger, wrote in response to a Twitter message asking if the photo was real. "Are people posting it on the web?"
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Ok so the story doesn't really matter to me. I just saw this picture and the headline and thought, "oh yeah, that looks like my birthday party from a few weeks ago." Except for the fact that I didn't have 10-15 people behind my camera. And I wasn't smart enough to just order a couple short subs from Subway and not bother to put up a lot of decorations.
I mean if you can't laugh at yourself who can you laugh at? And to be honest, as soon as I had the thought that this reminded me of my party, I did laugh out loud and figured I just had to repost it.
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